Security Architect - Technology

About the Position

Position Summary

UAE Nationals are encouraged to apply

New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) seeks to appoint a Security Architect reporting into the Associate Director, Technology & Security Architecture.

The Technology and Security architecture team defines New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) technology architecture and ensures that NYUAD technology and security strategy are closely aligned to the needs of the university.

The Security Architect plays an integral role in defining and assessing the University’s security strategy, architecture and practices. The security architect will be required to effectively translate business objectives and risk management strategies into specific security policies enabled by processes, technologies and services.

The architect will devise new solutions to the University’s computer, data and network systems in response to new requirements, changes in regulation and new risks.

Key Responsibilities

Maintain and extend an agile Enterprise Security Architecture for NYUAD

Develop and maintain a security architecture that enables the enterprise to develop and implement security solutions and capabilities that are clearly aligned with business, technology and threat drivers

Track developments and changes in the digital business and threat environments to ensure that they're adequately addressed in security strategy plans and architecture artifacts

Validate IT infrastructure and other reference architectures for security best practices and recommend changes to enhance security and reduce risks, where applicable

Ensure smooth delivery of Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP) services and address gaps in contract with the MSSP

Conduct or facilitate threat modeling of services and applications that tie to the risk and data associated with the service or application

Ensure that the NYUAD managed security service provider maintains a complete, accurate and valid inventory of all systems, infrastructure and applications that should be logged by the security information and event management (SIEM) or log management tool

Direct, hands-on experience or a strong working knowledge of vulnerability management tools

The security architect is expected to have experience with the following:Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)/Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH); General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR); International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 27001/2; National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Cybersecurity Framework (CSF); The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)

The ability to articulate technical and business requirements as well as translating business requirements into technical statements of work

To be able to contribute to all project documentation throughout the purchasing and RFP processes with statements of work and technical scopes that are clearly articulated in a concise manner that can be understood by local and international teams

Ability to work with international teams as well as locally. These team would be located in but not limited to The Philippines, India, Shanghai and New York

Experience in academic institutions with similar architecture/services

About NYUAD

NYU Abu Dhabi is a degree-granting research university with a fully integrated liberal arts and science undergraduate program in the Arts, Sciences, Social Sciences, Humanities, and Engineering. NYU Abu Dhabi, NYU New York, and NYU Shanghai, form the backbone of NYU’s global network university, an interconnected network of portal campuses and academic centers across six continents that enable seamless international mobility of students and faculty in their pursuit of academic and scholarly activity. This global university represents a transformative shift in higher education, one in which the intellectual and creative endeavors of academia are shaped and examined through an international and multicultural perspective. As a major intellectual hub at the crossroads of the Arab world, NYUAD serves as a center for scholarly thought, advanced research, knowledge creation, and sharing, through its academic, research, and creative activities.